Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...founding member of the rap group N.W.A., Ice Cube can lay claim to being a true O.G., an Original Gangsta. But he has always been too smart, too observant, to fall into the trap of being just a thug-life-living gangsta rapper. He's an actor: he co-starred in Boyz N the Hood, and he's set to start in the action movie Three Kings with George Clooney. And he's a social critic, attacking, in his lyrics, the penal system, politicians and sometimes America in general...
...melody to a scream of, "I wish you were dead!" their language is clean. So, to make up for this deficiency, the band has added a hidden track--a little over 11 minutes of playing around and using random obscenities to no particular end (though, admittedly, the short gangsta' rap imitation is rather amusing...
Springsteen turns out to be particularly interested in rap. "That desire to be heard, to have a voice that can be heard, that seems to be at the core of a lot of the music that I wrote," says Springsteen, who recently published Songs (Avon; $50), a compilation of his song lyrics. "More of those issues are dealt with in hip-hop today than in rock music. I don't know exactly why. Maybe those things are felt more in the hip-hop community, those kinds of immediate frustrations. Maybe that's the connection...
Hailing from mean streets himself, Seal grows passionate when talking about gangsta rap. "There are millions and millions of kids in the ghetto who just want to get out," he says. "And then they see their idols like B.I.G. and Tupac who do get out and what do they do? They make videos of loads of women in Jacuzzis and scantily clad and refer to them as ho's, taking the whole ghetto life and glorifying it and showing that this is what you have to aspire to. People that glorify this kind of life-style don't love themselves...
...Rap is a perfect outlet for someone with...